Taste of Sate (Satay)

Sate or satay or sometimes written satay foods are made from pieces of meat (chicken, goats, sheep, etc.) that cut small, and punctured into small stick that made of bamboo, then burnt using charcoal embers.

Sate is then served with various seasonings (depends on the variation recipe satay) is sometimes also found satay served with red onion.

Sate is known comes from Java, Indonesia, but satay are also popular in the countries of Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand.

Sate is also popular in the Netherlands that influenced the cuisine of Indonesia. In Japanese version is called yakitori.

Recipes and how it varied depending satay variations and recipes each region. Almost all types of meat can be made sate. As the origin country of satay, Indonesia has a variety of rich satay recipe.

Usually sate served with sauce. This sauce can be soy sauce, peanut sauce, or the other.

Satay is a kind of food that practically adequate food filling people.

Therefore sate usually eaten with warm rice or, if in some served with lontong (rice with bullet shape). Sate sometimes eaten with a ketupat (which also similar to lontong but in diamond shape).

Sate allegedly created by the street food trade in Java around the beginning the 19th century, based on the fact that satay became popular around the beginning of the century to-19 along with a growing number of Arab immigrants to Indonesia.

This also is the reason for the popularity of the use of goat meat and satay lamb as the preferred material by the citizens of Arab descent.

At the end, for medical reason.. it's recomended to consume a cucumber after eating some satay.

Are you ready for taste of satay??